One thought. If power use / efficiency matters to you, you may consider an AMD cpu. AMD CPUs use 50% to 75% less power than their respective intel equivalents.
And scale really well. Drop clocks a smidge, tell the CPU to not try to run at 95c, and power consumption nose dives.
You primary use cases seem very GPU heavy, could you not save some budget by going for an F series CPU maybe even go to a 13th gen? Might even be able to save more by going for DDR4. In gaming DDR4/5 seem reasonably close, but I have no idea how RAM sensitive productivity stuff is. Then you could swing up to a 4070ti or better depending on sales.
Good point, I was thinking that the upscaling software was more CPU intensive but it's definitely GPU intensive.
I would get a ThermalRight cooler such as the Phantom Spirit Evo and save almost $80 for other parts. Or for $30 less than the Noctua you can get the new Arctic Liquid Freezer III if you're okay with a water cooling AIO.
You could save a bit more with some cheaper options for the motherboard as well, so you may want to consider if you really need everything that particular board offers versus some of the others available. Main differences seem to be wifi standard (do you have or intend to acquire the infrastructure for WiFi 7?), # of SATA ports (do you really need more than 6 attached SATA devices?), supported RAM speeds (do you think you'll be upgrading your kits beyond 7600 MHz?), and # of M.2 slots (do you think you'll need space for more than 3 M.2 drives?). Depending on your retailers, bundles may be available that can save you even more money.
If you're set on the 4060 Ti 16 GB there's cheaper options for that as well, $450 or less from MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, and PNY. For about the same price as the card you listed you could get the base 4070, it has 12 GB of VRAM instead but it'll still outperform the 4060 Ti in gaming, your other use cases may make better use of the extra VRAM idk. If you save in other areas as I mentioned you could even go up to the 4070 Super for $600. Again, "only" 12 GB of VRAM but depending on your use cases it may make up for that. On the AMD side you're in the ballpark of the 7800 XT or the 7900 GRE, both of which have 16 GB of VRAM and should beat the 4060 Ti in gaming performance at least.
IMO the 14900K isn't worth it vs. the 14700K.
I appreciate the response.
The CPU cooler to be honest just was in a tach tips video on YouTube being really quiet and out performing some higher quality liquid coolers so I went with it.
The mother board definitely could be swapped, I doubt I'll use all that.
And based on another response I think I'm deciding to swap out the GPU for something better and those recommendations are superb.
I saw the benchmarks on both the and I think the price was just not that far off so I didn't care that much?
Air coolers are just as efficient if not more than. Liquid AIOs. At the end of the day the efficiency is down to the physical connection between the cpu and the heat sink and they’re all just metal plates, beside the case you have chosen can move a lot of air through it. Also you don’t run the risk of the AIO leaking and destroying your computer. Happened to a former associate of mine. Also I have the larger version of that case and absolutely love it. Good choice.